Máku

Máku is an extinct northern Amazonian language[1] once spoken by a group of people dwellingin the vicinity of the Auari (or Auaris) river located in the extreme northwest of the state of Roraima, Brazil (Koch-Grünberg 1913:457, 1917:48, 170). The known history of this language is marked by a steady decline in the speaker population as a consequence of external social pressures. In 1925, there were 50 speakers of the language split unequally between two malocas (‘community houses’): one at the head of the Uraricoera river and the other further along the river between the mouth of the Aracasa and the mouth of the Auari rivers (Rice 1928:214, 217). By 1950, after repeated attacks by the Kasɨrapai (a Ninam-speaking Yanomami group), there was only one Máku family, of eight or nine people, left on the lower Uraricoera. By 1969, two speakers of Máku remained: Sinfrônio Magalhães (approximately 50 years old), and his sister, Maria, (approximately 55 years old; Migliazza 1980:115). By the year 2000, both of these speakers had died and the language ceased to be spoken.

Below you will find links to the resources available for this project:

1. Stories 
   1. Wedding
   2. Future Plans
   3. Other Plans
   4. Survival tasks
   5. When I was small
   6. The Stone
   7. Valeria's Illness
2. Formulario A (collected by Ernest Migliazza)
   1. 1 to 127
   2. 126 to 244
   3. 245 to 320b
   4. 320c to 344
   5. 334e to 341j
3. Formulario B (Máku only)